Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

[James Bloom <jabloom99@gmail.com>]

Carl:

I use VirtualBox on Debian 12, and I run virtual Windows 11 and Linux machines with no issue. I also tried GNOME boxes and had no direct problems, but I went back to using VirtualBox because it was compatible with my cloud storage setup - I can save a VirtualBox virtual machine file in the cloud server and access it from my desktop and laptop without issue, whereas GNOME boxes wouldn’t work if I did that - there were always boot errors. But GNOME boxes otherwise seemed to work great.

James 

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From: Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2023 9:29:30 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Virtualization under Bookworm

 

Hi,

I have a project that I'd like to work on in a virtual machine hosted on
my Bookworm system. In the old days (5-10 years ago) I used VirtualBox,
just from inertia. I haven't really virtualized since then.

What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to create a
one-off VM to run Debian under Debian? As this is not my job or even
main hobby, ideally it should have setup at least as easy as VirtualBox
was back in the day.

System is an ASUS ExpertCenter PN52 (Ryzen 7 6800, 32 GB of RAM, 2
terabyte SSD).

Thank you.

-Carl Fink